I didn't see it so I can't say. It hits a little to close to home. My DS and SO were there three years ago, backpacking for a month. I gave them the lecture, you know the one all moms give their kids, and told them to run like HELL toward higher ground, if the water disappeared off the shoreline. While they were there, there was an earthquake off shore, and tsunami warnings were out. I was frantic trying to find out if they were alright. It was three or four days before I heard from them. They were fine, on the other side of the island when that happened, away from the warning area. I never want to go through that fear again!

Re the conversation, I think she likely had much that was important to say, but we're just looking at a still picture, not the conversation, and discussing as we would that nightmare of a dress Heidi Klum wore to the Emmys. Re appropriate: Big prints are in for all ages. Peplums are in. Women her age who are very soft, not just untoned, wear sleeveless and don't get any guff. I used to dread conferences with a large coterie of menopausal ladies. I didn't mind wearing a sweater indoors, but when they demanded the air conditioning be down so low that my nose wouldn't stop running, I was most offended. So, any of you who have been through that, can we please have some compassion for a woman who has to look calm and cool under the extremely hot lights of television? Age inappropriate would have been if she'd been wearing the matching mini-skirt, which I'm sure was made. Dark pants and a Summer top are perfect for the transitional season. She probably had a jacket for when she wasn't being roasted like a rotisserie chicken. Her outfit is the epitome of what is meant by "office casual" or "dressy casual". Something we've discussed at length because it's so hard to get right. It's the right dress code for a chat show. Edit: I've looked at the video. They're not leggings. They're straight leg pants. I didn't see anything wrong with the way the pants fit her, and we've all agreed that the peplum wasn't well fitted or flattering. There's a lot of fabric and structure in that top, and the pants aren't plastered on for all that they're fitted. I just don't get what the big deal is. I guess some people don't like a first lady with cleavage, but when larger ladies show cleavage nobody gets on their cases. It's not like she's wearing a spaghetti strapped camisole.

My mistake, 'Creepy' did go through. I guess there are those who like that type of thing, but I'm not one of them. To me she seems, I don't know, depressing? Sinister? Even kind of evil. And she did win in Asia. I've got mixed emotions about someone winning the show in one country, then coming to another country and entering the same show. Doesn't really seem quite fair to me. And I've always had a question in my mind about rules for contestants. I wonder what, if any, qualifications they have to meet in order to audition. The group that got the Golden Buzzer were fantastic! I can easily see them winning the whole thing! And I actually laughed out loud at the lady stand-up comedian, she was really funny! I have seen trained cats before, once at Fiesta Texas, and once in a Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey circus matinee. But neither act was any where near as good as last night's cats were. Looks like some really tough competition this year! Rusty

I must have fallen asleep. I spent the day shopping for & planting 14 one gallon containers of perennials. I had to go play the 9 year old opera singer. She is GOOD! BLEW ME AWAY! And adorable! I'm looking forward to Simon wearing a rainbow glitter T-shirt! ♥ The father who lost his wife, made me tear up...but don't think he'll go very far. The red and black clad dancers were a Vegas Show...I'd pay to see that again....and again..... I liked the comedian.....8 years of performing was good prep for AGT, THIS will get him noticed, hopefully a bigger paycheck when he does BIGGER shows.